Domestic Terrorists Under Watch: Threats Against the President of United States by so-called “white” Supremacy Groups:
Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially as the debate over health care intensifies and a pattern of threats emerges. read more
Knight Templars of the Al Aqsa Mosque (aka Solomon’s Temple)
Around 1119, two veterans of the First Crusade, the French knight Hugues de Payens and his relative Godfrey de Saint-Omer, proposed the creation of a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims.[9] King Baldwin II of Jerusalem agreed to their request, and gave them space for a headquarters on theTemple Mount, in the captured Al Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount had a mystique, because it was above what was believed to be the ruins of the Temple of Solomon. The Crusaders therefore referred to the Al Aqsa Mosque as Solomon’s Temple, and it was from this location that the Order took the name of Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, or “Templar” knights.” read more
Ethiopia’s controversial singer, Teddy Afro, was freed early (for good behaviour) from prison on Thursday after serving 18 months of a two-year sentence for hit-and-run manslaughter.read more
Black Shang of ChinaPicture caption: Shang dynasty chariot sacrifice with two horses and driver partially visible behind. This well-pre-served burial was excavated in 1972 near Anyang. The chariot is an improved version of a type that first appeared in West Asia around 1600 BC. The practice of chariot sacrifice exemplifies the combination of war and religion in early Chinsese political organization. read more
Rare Silver Dwarf Only a handful of human figures from the pre-Han period are preserved. The majority of these represent kneeling servants and some evidently were intended as supports for trays and lamp-holders. The figure here illustrated, and another of a leather-clad solder attributed to the Han period, are the only examples of silver statuary surviving from early times. The dating of the dwarfrests on the treatment of the face, which relates it to some of the bronze figures datable to the 5th – 3rd centuries BC read more
An international search was under way Wednesday for a cargo ship that vanished after its crew reported they were hijacked — at least briefly — nearly two weeks ago.read more
Ten things you’re not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine
(At least, not by anyone in authority…)
#1 – The vaccine production was “rushed” and the vaccine has never been tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine flu vaccine this fall…read more
Rastafarian Views on Life, Politics and Social Issues
